Modern message in a bottle.
(via selfrelatingtruth)
August242012
August32012
“We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”
Gore Vidal (via npr)
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July302012
This week, The New Yorker publishes “Thank You for the Light,” a 1936 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was originally rejected by the magazine decades ago. Here, a look back at the magazine’s 1926 profile of Fitzgerald: http://nyr.kr/Q0QK9H
July182012
Maria Bamford visits the morning zoo on a new episode of the Jon Hamm-approved Stand Down.
July142012
: Anti-heroes
We live in an age of failed institutions and political upheaval, our society is left with nothing to worship – except perhaps the anti-hero. The individual that will make a difference, no matter what. Recently, the storytellers of television have created lead characters that are complicated…
11AM
This may be the scariest aspect of “Breaking Bad,” and of the drug trade itself: the more ghoulish and extreme the show becomes, the more it seems to traffic not in realism but in horror, and the more accurately it captures the reality of the cartels and their business.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the uncannily accurate depiction of the meth trade in “Breaking Bad”: http://nyr.kr/LVdeWu
July92012
Children are not the problem here
This man is a genius.
(via theatlantic)
July72012
A Saturday morning cartoon. For more: http://nyr.kr/KOocLH
11AM
What happens if a state opts out of Medicaid, in one chart
If governors opt their states out of the health law’s Medicaid expansion — as many are now threatening to do — it’s the poorest Americans who would find themselves getting the rawest deal.
Isn’t it illegal to opt out of federal law? Why such blatant disregard?
(via theatlantic)
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